Riven vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Riven
based on 4,272 Riven vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Swain
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Advice to Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Riven vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Riven against Swain counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Swain..
Riven typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Swain. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Riven or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Swain, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter for Swain.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Swain, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Swainas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Swain matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Swain. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average racks up more CS relative to Swain. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Riven versus Swain build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Swain than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.1% when countering Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Swain as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Riven vs Swain matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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